A treatise on struma or scrofula, commonly called the King's evil. In which the impropriety of considering it as an hereditary disease is pointed out : more rational causes are assigned and a successful method of treatment is recommended / By Thomas White.

  • White, Thomas (Surgeon)
Date:
1784
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Credit: A treatise on struma or scrofula, commonly called the King's evil. In which the impropriety of considering it as an hereditary disease is pointed out : more rational causes are assigned and a successful method of treatment is recommended / By Thomas White. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ftrumous, cannot be at all wondered at. The Lafleals, are evidently the moll ge¬ neral means of conveying nutriment to the body, confequently, if they Ihould be ge¬ nerally affefted by difeafe, and by that means incapable of performing their differ¬ ent offices, I think we may not only expefl to find the chyle conveyed for the purpofes of nutrition, imperfefl in quantity, but alfo in its quality; and if an acid Ihould prevail, I would not confider it as the origin of difeafe, but its confequence. This is il- luflrated in the cafe of a jaundiced patient, whofe fluids might be expected to tafle of the bile, but the reafon of that is evident, becaufe it is diverted from its natural courfe, and diffufed through the whole habit. One of the mofl^general caufes of difeafed Lymphatic glands, particularly in children, I confider to arife from the improper treat¬ ment of them, in their infancy. Every one who has made but the leafl obfervation upon the mode of nurfing children in this country,